Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES- PATENT OEEICE.

y BENJAMIN I. LANE, OF SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Speeiiealion forming,l part of Letters Patent No. 4. [,438, datedFebruary 2, 1864.

To all whom it 11mg/ concern.' and forth with its rollers in contactwith the Be it known that l, BENJAMIN I. LANE, a clothes that may be onthe board. While so resident of South Framingham, in the countyoperating the said implement it is occasionally, of Middlesex and Stateof Massachusetts,have or during each forward movement of it, to heinvented 'a new and useful Hand-Rubber to pushed into the water or suds,so as to more be Used in WashingGlothes ona Wash-Board g than immersethe cap-board D, in which case and I do hereby declare the same to befully the back stroke or movement of the impledescribed in thefollowing' specification, and Inent will cause a portion of thewashingrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of liquid to be takenup and dischargedbetween whichthe rollers and upon the clothes, the sameFigure 1 is a top View; Fig. 2,arear elevacontributing; to effect theproper cleansing of tion, Fig. 3, an end elevation, and Fig. 4 a l theclothes. longitudinal, and Fig. 5 a transverse, section Each of therollers may be made either in of it. v whole orin part ofeaoutehouc orguttavpercha,

In carrying out my invention I employ a or some suitable composition inwhich either square or rectangular frame, A, provided with I or both mayform a constituent.

a handle, B, arranged on it as shown in the l In the ordinary mode ot'washing clothes on drawings. a washboard the washerwoman seizes themWithin the said frame I arrange a series of l and with herknuckles rubsthem on the board. "rollers, C C, 35e., having their axes in one In sodoing she is liable to abrade or injure planeand parallel to each other.Each roller her hand, and it is a common accident for the is to projecta short distance below the lower hand to be wounded f more or less bythe opedges of the frame, and its journals d a. are eration. Myhand-rubber or clothes-washer to be supported within the two oppositeend is designed to prevent such wear and injury portions, b b, oftheframe, the same being as l of the hands. shown in Fig. 5. I claim- Aboard or cap, D, is to extend across the l 'lhesaid hand-washingimplement,the same frame and in front of the handle and baekcnosistingof aseries ot' rollersmadeinwhole or ward from the front side or partot' the frame V in part ot' india-rubber or gutta-perchaor their inmanner as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Each compounds, and arranged within aframe in roller should be placed very close to but not the manner andfor operation; substantiallyT so near as to touch that next adjacent toit. 1 as specined.

The Implement so made 1s to he used In con l BENJ L LANE.

neetion with a tinted wash-.board while the latter may be in an inclinedposition within a I ITitnesses: wash-tub, the person using theimplementl holding it by its handle, and moving it back l R. H. EDDY, F.P. HALE, Jr.

